CDC: First Tamiflu stockpile shipments arriving

Wednesday

Apr 29, 2009 at 12:28 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government says the first shipments of the drug Tamiflu from the federal stockpile arrived in New York state, New York City and Indiana Wednesday morning, and all states will get their share by Sunday.

As a precaution, the government has decided to ship to the states enough medication to treat 11 million people - just in case the new swine flu takes off.

But don't worry about supplies. Dr. Richard Besser, acting chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says no states are having any shortages - there's plenty in regular pharmacies for now.

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